A Texas father engaged in a three-hour standoff with police in in an attempt to prevent doctors from pulling the plug on his brain-dead son.
George Pickering II was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for entering Tomball Regional Medical Center, in Houston, with a gun and threatening to shoot employees.
His son, George Pickering III, was in critical care after having a stroke, and doctors had reportedly ordered a process that slowly removed life support. Read the full story here ▶
